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S. 2244119th CongressIn committeeLatest action Jul 10, 2025Decoded by AI · checked against the record
Official title: Excluding Illegal Aliens from Medicaid Act
Introduced:
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The bill speeds up a Medicaid immigration rule to July 2025 and cuts federal funds to states covering more immigrants.
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This bill moves the effective date of a Medicaid immigration eligibility rule from October 1, 2026, to July 4, 2025. It also strips states of their higher federal Medicaid expansion matching rate if they use state funds to cover health insurance for immigrants who aren't "qualified aliens" (excluding covered children and pregnant women).
This affects state governments, especially those using their own funds to cover immigrants without legal status, and immigrants relying on state-funded health programs.
States that continue such coverage would face reduced federal Medicaid funding, creating financial pressure to scale back or end these programs.
States that use their own funds to cover certain immigrants would lose the higher federal matching rate for their Medicaid expansion population and receive their regular, lower rate instead.
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Right now: a Senate committee is reviewing it. If the House changes it, it goes back to the Senate before reaching the President.
Latest action: — Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.